2017 KnobCon - (Hardware Synths - Chicago - Sept 8-10)

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Guest of Honor and Keynote Speaker Tom Oberheim
Tom is the progenitor of the American polyphonic analogue synthesiser and designer of electronic music devices ranging from the Maestro Phase Shifter to the Oberheim DX drum machine. If you have listened to the radio in the past 40 years, it is impossible for you not to have heard sounds he had a hand in.

Join us at the Golden Knob Banquet to hear Tom's Keynote Address, or catch the Live Q&A Session (schedule tbd).
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What is Knobcon?
Knobcon is a one-of-a-kind synthesizer convention now in it's sixth year. Complete with performances, workshops and vendors, Knobcon allows for a fully immersive experience. Attendees can get their hands on an incredible amount of equipment and talk directly with designers of some of today's most innovative synthesizer products.

Held just outside Chicago, Ill., at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg, the entire event takes place under one roof. Enthusiasts travel from all parts of the world to attend this yearly event. Direct access to all major forms of transportation make this an easy destination for those traveling.

Who should attend?
If you are interested in electronic-based or experimental music and the tools used to create it, this is the place for you. The diversity and passion of those at knobcon make it enjoyable for all experience levels.


===Chicago's Knobcon is where gear makers converge to show their wares
Peter Kirn - August 22, 2017  5 Comments     
We've come full circle: the informal meetup seems to be eclipsing big trade shows. And for modular and boutique makers, KnobCon is now an American mainstay.

We saw Russia's upcoming Synthposium. Moscow is as much music festival as it is gear conference. KnobCon in Chicago is mostly just gear – mentions of performances double as demos, and even the Friday party promises "gear-centric performances."

With the ever-growing cadre of small modular makers in the USA, though, Chicago's KnobCon is looking like the one place everyone will come together. A handful of bigger manufacturers (Roland, Yamaha, Elektron) join a mostly-boutique lineup – and Doepfer from Germany, who started the whole Eurorack thing.

Tom Oberheim, who's gone from being historical legend to modern-day gear rockstar, will "headline" the event with a keynote. Maybe the most interesting feature is the Demo Derby. Sign up for dedicated time slots on a system, with the venue open to people bringing their own studio setups. (It's a bit like a model train meetup – you can create any modular setup you like, in a defined area.)

Here's the full lineup of gear makers:

1010music LLC
4ms Company
Amplified Parts
Art For The Ears
Arturia
Audioutlaw
Audulus LLC
Blue Lantern Modules
Catalyst Audio
Chase Bliss Audio
Conductive Labs
Copper Traces
Couture Voltage
Dave Smith Instruments
Delptronics
Detachment 3
Division 6
Doctor Synth's World of ROMplers
DOEPFER Musikelektronik
Dwarfcraft Devices
Elektron
Elite Modular
Erogenous Tones
Etherealsun
Family Room Recordings
Five12 Inc
Future Retro
Great Lakes Modular
Grove Audio
Hammond
Industrial Music Electronics
Isla Instruments
JMLS – Logan Soloman Synth Research
Korg
KVgear
Landscape
Make Noise
Metalphoto of Cincinnati
Michigan Synth Works
Modular Addict
Mystic Circuits
Nerd Audio
Noise Engineering
Novation
omiindustriies
Rabid Elephant
Roland
Schlappi Engineering
SDIY Chicago
STG Soundlabs
Syinsi
Synth City
synthCube
Synthesis Technology
Synthrotek
SysEx Dumpster
Tascam
TipTop Audio
Universal Audio
VCV
Yamaha
Zetaohm
ZORX



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Sneak peak first patch with the TEMPI module by MakeNoise. TEMPI is a 6 channel, polyphonic, time-shifting module. It provides an intuitive method for the creation and recalling of complex clocking arrangements within a modular synthesizer system.

The primary user interface and programming elements for the module are six large, illuminated buttons:
BUTTON-1 through BUTTON-6, and two smaller illuminated buttons:PGM_A and PGM_B. The module is able to store up to sixty-four clock/timing scenarios called "STATES", arranged in four BANKS of sixteen. An LED is used to indicate the current BANK by COLOR  and changes in STATE indicated by FLASHING. There are Inputs for External TEMPO, a Gate INput for MOD, and STATE Selection via a CV INput (with Combo pot for attenuation) and / or GATE INput.

The primary goal of this module is to have the maximum amount of artist-controlled musical variation with a minimum amount of data inputs.

Specific notes about the patch:

All the beats are being sequenced by the Tempi module. There are several stackable cables going out to two Addac Wave players, each playing 72 samples each, and the main drums are coming from the Nord Drum 2, which is then split into two signals one being processed by a Mungo g0 dual delay/storage strip clocking through different delay feedback presets. Then the outputs from one of my ADDAC 101 waveplayer's was then being processed by a Qu-Bit RT-60, and another RT-60 was processing the output of the other ADDAC 101 waveplayer. Running both at the same time and then using one of the Gate outputs 5, and 6 from Tempi to switch through different effects on the RT-60's and at the same time triggering different samples. This is what was creating the different effects processing happening at specific time intervals. Snare noise sound coming from the Hex Inverter new Snare module. Other modulation coming from the OmniMod module from Macro Machines, going out to the Folktek Matter module adding in some of the extra tiny glitches and textures. The drone chords come from the ALM's ALM011 / Akemie's Castle running into the TipTop Z-DSP halls of Valhalla card using program 8. The bassline is from a Modcan FMVDO running into a MakeNoise Optomix. The high harmonic notes played via a Mutable Instruments Ring Module, sending out a clock from channel two from Tempi into X clock input on Rene. Everything was recorded in one take.




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